GRE Word List
POTENTIAL
existing in possibility : capable of development into actuality
The meaning of the word potential is existing in possibility : capable of development into actuality.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| hardy | bold |
| benign | of a mild type or character that does not threaten health or life |
| hypothetical | involving or being based on a suggested idea or theory : being or involving a hypothesis : conjectural |
| ramp | a sloping way or plane: such as |
| victuals | food usable by people |
| provident | frugal |
| shun | to avoid deliberately and especially habitually |
| prune | a plum dried or capable of drying without fermentation |
| supine | lying on the back or with the face upward |
| pejorative | a word or phrase that has negative connotations (see connotation |